Friday, October 10, 2014

Marnie Swedberg is author of 12 “how-to”
books, manager of the family restaurant and retail store, radio host, public
speaker, mentor and web hostess. One of her ebooks is called Sane
Social Networking in 15 min a day – for busy people. Since doing
the book, she has become a social network advocate.

Q – How do you use Facebook, Twitter and Linked In? What are some
of your social networking strategies?

I spend 15 minutes a day doing what I call playing "ping-pong"
with my social networks. I "ping" out, or volley out, 4+ posts per
day using BufferApp.com and then, just once a day, I spend a few minutes at
each site replying to comments, etc. Works great in the minutes I have.

Q - You
started life as a victim of a reading disability, fires, floods, car wrecks,
tornadoes, burglary, lighting strikes and the death of your beloved dad. Yet
you have exhibited extreme come-back behavior, becoming a success.

Q - What was it besides your profound faith that spurred you on?

As is the
case with everyone who enters an arena with a handicap, I developed new methods
-- strategies that could help ME do what I needed to do in extreme
circumstances. Now I share those strategies with thousands around the world who
aren't facing the same set of traumas, but would like to do things faster,
better and smarter.

I train
BUSY - Best Unique Strategies for You (again, based on my personal background
which required me to develop unique approaches to everyday problems).

Q - You have presented at large corporations, including Honeywell,
Prudential, Pillsbury and AT&T.

Q. What do you impart to these corporate types?

I love to share life mastery, success and other how-to strategies,
principles and best practices. I train everything from "The Success
Principles of Olympians, Presidents and CEOs" to "Kitchen
Shortcuts". If you'd use it in your daily life, I probably touch on it in
one of my programs.

Q. What are some of the Time Management strategies of Olympians,
CEO’s and presidents?

I go into details about exactly HOW leaders master these, but the
high points are:

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Today, October 7, 2014, my book, The Funding Is Out There! Access the Cash You Need to Impact Your Business, went live. This means that it is now available for purchase at your favorite bookstore: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million (BAM), Powell's Books, Chapter - Indigo, and others. The Funding Is Out There! is available in eBook format, softcover, and hardcover. For more information and links, see www.thefundingisoutthere.com .

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Some entrepreneurs jump directly into business ownership, but most start off as employees somewhere. Working as an employee provides you with information about what to do... and what not to do. It helps you to see how companies scale, utilize existing resources, hire, segment into departments and divisions, prepare financial statements, and so much more. As such, working for one or more companies, particularly entrepreneurial companies, can really help drive your growth as an entrepreneur. In addition, working for someone else can provide you with the needed funds to start your business, assuming that you save a good portion of what you earn!

Networking into a Great Learning Opportunity

If you want the best learning opportunity, you must identify the company and position that would provide this for you. Once you do so, the typical job boards will most likely not help you. The fastest and most assured way to get into the company you want, at or near the position you want is to network into it. How do you do that? Check out the insightful article "Networking Into Your Target Company: Strategies for getting into your target company" on career-intelligence.com,

Excerpt from Networking Into Your Target Company

"Like Facebook, Twitter gets mixed results from career experts in
terms of its use as a targeting tool to connect with specific companies.
However, there are a few common strategies to try to make contact with
company recruiters or hiring managers at your target organizations.Tiffany C. Wright, founder of The Resourceful CEO,
suggests determining if the corporate contact you’ve identified on
Twitter maintains a blog or regularly contributes to one. If so, you can
read that person’s blog and bio, then comment on the blog on Twitter
using the person’s @Twitter handle. “This shows that you did your
homework and paid attention,” says Wright. “Request a brief talk with
her about her company and what she does, as it relates to something she
wrote about.”"